Daredevil gunmen have abducted Dr Olusola Otulana an Opthalmologist with the Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Sagamu campus demanding a ransom of N100 million from family before she is released.
The incident occurred last Friday between Imota and Ijebu-Ode while she was returning from Ikorudu in Lagos State.
The kidnappers, we learnt, trailed her from Ikorodu road and waited until they got to the relatively lonely Imota stretch of the Ikorodu-Ijebu-Ode road, before over taking her car and blocking the access way with their vehicle.
After firing several gunshots into the air to scare her, the female teacher was forcefully seized and taken away by the abductors in another vehicle.
Dr Agboola Deji a close friend to the family , said the abductors who had been in contact twice with the victim’s family yesterday reduced the ransom to N50 million, adding that the matter had been reported to State Security Service(SSS), Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the varsity authority.
The Chairman of the OOU chapter of ASUU, Dr Adesola Nassir, confirmed the incident. He said the lecturers are “fear -stricken” and that work may “grind to a halt” at the College of Health Sciences until the abducted lecturer is rescued alive.